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A8 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday November 24, 1999 ~ ^ Library takes second-place honours in research co n test Oakville Public Library has won sec contest was to encourage community many libraries across Canada to help nals, 200 newspapers and hundreds of ond prize in an Online Research Contest members to visit their local public their patrons find information quickly reference works. It also contains over hosted by the Electric Library Canada library and to inspire patrons, both old and easily. The service is designed for 135.000 photos, 2,700 maps, and over service, www.elibrary.ca/welcome, in and new, to take note of the numerous schools, public, academic, and special 200.000 television, radio and govern conjunction with Ontario Library Week. electronic services available at many libraries, www.elibrary.ca/welcome, as ment transcripts. The database is updatThe Electric Library Canada service Ontario public libraries. well as home PC users, www.elibrary.ca. ed daily and content sources are awarded the library with a $500 cash The Electric Library Canada service The service delivers 100% full-text arti archived between one and 14 years. is an online reference service used by cles from over 600 magazines and jourdonation. Launched in April 1998, the Electric The patron at Oakville Public Library who sub mitted the winning ballot received a $100 gift certifi cate to Indigo.ca. All public library patrons who entered this con test and entered a valid email address, will receive a $10 gift certificate to Indigo.ca. The Electric invo^ Library Canada Online Research Contest began on O ct 19th with the support of The Ontario Library Association. Anyone who visit ed one of the pub lic libraries across Ontario that partic WIN A SONY PLAYSTATION AT MIDNIGHT MADNESS ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26TH. ipated in this con Be like our Gillian and leave your senses at the door because all our stores will test was encour aged to enter via be open until m id n ig h t this Friday. Enter our dra w to w in one of tw o one or more of their library's Sony Playstations. To win you must be here at midnight when the draw takes computer termi nals. place. There will be a host of specials and Old Fashioned Victorian Carolers The aim of the will create the warm th of a Victorian Christmas. YOU'D BE MAD NOT TO COME. p r o v in c e - w id e Library Canada service is the result of an exclusive marketing and distribution licence between Infonautics Corporation, a subsidiary of Infonautics Inc., of Wayne, PA, the creator of Electric Library (TM), and Rogers Media Inc., a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc. th a t adm in istrative a ssista n t ecome oraam zin our n ess events Holland Park Can 825-TIPS or 1-80 0-6 68 -51 51 Computer thief still at large During the night of June 16th, someone smashed the glass from the front door for TNA Express on Winston Park Drive. The culprit entered the busi ness and grabbed a number of com puter compo nents and a portable ' tele phone. The victim estimated the value of the loss to be in the area of $10,000. Investigators would like to identify and speak with a per son seen peering into windows next door to the victim business the same evening. This person is described as male, white, 1920 years old, sixfeet tall, with bush hair. 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